We meet in the Flower and Butterfly Garden at the Old State Building.
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Butterfly Garden |
(2)We saw the Dancy Polk House, the site of (3)Colonel Lawrence Banks's Home that was torn down during the Civil War.
We saw the site of the (4)First Methodist Church and the first City Cemetery also torn down during the Civil War.
(5)The site of the First Presbyterian Church, Owl Drug Store, Tennessee Valley State Bank, and many Jewish storefronts.
(6) We stopped at the Lafayette Street Cemetery to take a few pictures.
(7) We stopped to visit the Notorious Simp McGee saloons and Dead Man's Alley
(8)We visited the Nungester Drug Store and (9) The United Methodist Church.
(10) We stopped outside the First Baptist Church its third location.
(11) We visited the Carnegie Library and ended our tour at the Decatur Daikin Amphitheater.
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Carnegie Library |
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Decatur Daikin Amphitheater. |
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The Rising Sun Lodge No 29 Ancient Free & Accepted Masons |
'Honorable Past Grand Master'(1899). In 1934, the Lodge moved into the Masonic Temple on Johnston Street, formerly the Cotaco Opera House.
Decatur has pieces of art dotted throughout the historic area.